London, 25th October 2010 - Reports that the world's most prolific phishing gang have diversified their operations over from conventional phishing emails to distributing the ZeuS Trojan is another sign that hackers are becoming incredibly sophisticated, says Imperva, the data security specialist.   More than anything, the attack vectors used by the Avalanche botnet gang, who have taken two years to migrate to the new fraud architecture, indicate that criminal hackers are now using lateral thinking to develop their fraudulent modus operandi, says Amichai Shulman, Imperva's chief technology officer.   "What is apparent from our research is that the Avalanche cybercrime gang - who were reportedly responsible for two-thirds of the world's phishing attacks this time last year - are also using advanced programming techniques" he said.   

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London, 25th October, 2010 – Mobile Interactive Group (MIG) today announced that it ranked Number One in the 2010 Deloitte Technology Fast 50, a ranking of the 50 fastest growing technology companies in the UK. Rankings are based on percentage revenue growth over five years. Mobile Interactive Group grew 26885 percent during this period.

Mobile Interactive Groups CEO & Founder, Barry Houlihan, credits continued investment in proprietary technology, platforms and people, and working with great clients with the company’s 26885 percent revenue growth over the past five years. He said, “We’re in a hot high-growth industry and are constantly dealing with rapid changes in devices, products, platforms and user expectations. You need to have a clear vision, a great business model and a very strong culture to deal with that.”

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 ANDOVER, Massachusetts, October 20, 2010 – Napatech today announced that it has joined the Network Intelligence Alliance (NI Alliance), a new industry organization created for collaboration among the Network Economy’s technology providers. Participation in the NI Alliance will ensure that Napatech Intelligent Network Adapter products support the existing and future needs of Network Intelligence vendors.

 In today’s Network Economy—a world that now depends and runs on networks—accurate visibility and precise tracking of data crossing networks have become crucial to the availability, performance and security of applications and services.

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 Version 2.1 of Leading Online Fraud Platform Evolves to Stay Ahead of the Financial Malware Pack

 Trusteer, the leading provider of secure browsing services, today reported that it has captured and analyzed a new version (2.1) of the Zeus financial malware and found that it has added sophisticated new mechanisms to commit online fraud and remain the Trojan of choice for criminals. Zeus has not only improved its business logic but also its ability to avoid detection and automatic analysis by antivirus vendors. Zeus is under the spotlight of security vendors, banks, and law enforcement, which forces its developers to continually improve it to avoid losing business to competing malware like Bugat, Clampi, and SpyEye.

Read more: Trusteer Reports Hackers Improve Zeus Trojan to Retain Leadership in Crimeware Race

 ANDOVER, Massachusetts, October 20, 2010 – Napatech today announced general availability and first large volume shipments of its new NT20E2 Capture and In-line adapters. The NT20E2 intelligent network adapters are based on PCI-Express Gen 2 providing full 20 Gbps throughput.

 The new NT20E2 Capture is the first packet capture adapter on the market to include transmit capabilities allowing support of Capture/Replay and Traffic Generation applications. This allows Napatech’s OEM customers to upgrade their network performance monitoring systems to include data retention and network analysis capabilities.

Read more: Napatech NT20E2 now with Capture Replay and Traffic Generation